A Little Excitement

One doesn't often see trampolines in the middle of the street...

When did you get pavement?

Everyone's a comedian.

Watched your video on 650. Was just thinking, "Kate should roll down the side window" when Kate rolled down the side window.

Did the "Welcome to Delisle - Home of Kate McMillan" sign survive?

all easily preventable with a 2 cent per litre carbon tax.

same storm that went through Eckville and Lacombe?

I also watched this video on 650. The storm that hit Delisle was on a trajectory to hit us north of Saskatoon, but dissipated some and we did not get as much wind and only about 1" of rain. It was interesting to watch the progress of the storm on the Weathernet radar screen for the Saskatoon area.

@ simmy, sure, David Aiken on Sun had some dimwit professor from Ottawa on his show yesterday and this good was talking about carbon taxes would solve all the problems. Aiken never had anybody on to counter what this fellow said. I quite often turn Aiken off as I am starting to think he is the token lefty on Sun News.

"good" should have read goof, sorry about that.

Watching the Weathernet radar storm progress worked fine until the internet went off the air until this morning.

We got the same storm. It was the first time I have seen rain, not hail, fall like golf balls. The wind changed direction at least three times so we kept getting the same storm coming back to visit us.

Luckily, I live on the bald prairie so there is none of those pesky falling tree problems (tomato plants, OTOH, not so fortunate). I suspect a half built house near us might not have come through unscathed.

Nice video. Looks like Calgary is about to get blasted by heavy rain and hail. Later today there will probably be widespread severe storms in the AB-SK border regions, as a strong front develops, then later in the week very hot and humid air is moving north and could push temperatures over 35 in parts of eastern SK and MB. But it looks like 40-45 in parts of the northern plains states. It's not a dry heat and with all the water lying around to be evaporated, I would imagine we will be seeing many days of scattered heavy storms in the prairies as well as the hot temperatures (not so warm in Alberta though). There will also be some heavy rainstorms in central BC later today. Funny how this has been about the exact opposite of what the alarmists were predicting would be the "new normal" two decades ago. Those big prairie droughts and forest fire summers in BC will have to await a different roll of the weather dice.

By the way, if you google the word "bugnado" you might find this video I saw on the American Weather Forum (americanwx.com) which shows a column of bugs (probably mozzies) over the flooded regions of the Missouri River valley somewhere in western Iowa ... there are columns of bugs that drift along like funnel clouds. Maybe some places in the eastern prairies have this going on also, wouldn't be surprised. Sometimes the doppler radar picks up clouds of insects or flocks of birds especially when the weather is calm and stable.

They have those bugnados in the Estevan region of the province. Ugh.

Move on.. Nothing new to see here. Just another prairie summer day.

Nice pics though!

After talking to CBC radio this morning they kind of came to the same decision. Big prairie storm. Must be Tuesday!

Tis an ill wind...at least we got a tour....a lotta trees for Saskabush...pavement looks good too.

Were you actually filming while driving?
Tsk-tsk!
Do that been a cell phone here in Ontario, and one of premier daddy-Daltoid's nancy-nannycoppers would give you a nasty ticket...and a good finger-wagging to boot!

Ya, whats with this place !?
Maybe it's because of the storm but didn't see any hoodlums or bums on the streets. Bet there isn't any needles lying about waiting to get stepped on. Any unsavory characters there? Or have they all left for big city centers where they can hid amongst the do gooders without fear? But shhhh, don't tell the big city libs. Let them keep on ruining their "modern" inner cities with fail-unsafe, reward failure legislation.

Am I wrong?

Sure is flat out there.

On the positive side, plenty of fire wood, time to cut it up before harvest and should be dry for winter ;-)

Interesting video after the storm.

Good fortune for no major damage, Kate.

I was surprised at the tall evergreens in that part of the country!

Perhaps on a slow day ( do you ever have one?) Kate, you could give your readers a fairweather tour of your community, eh?

I,ma confused, was that weather or climate?:-)))

BM
It may be flat out there but there is a view. Out here in BC we can only see about 60 miles and then the mountains get in the way, and that is the furthest distance. The mountains pile up the rain clouds and we get just under 200 days of rain per year. Still even without the view, we get about 340 days of golf per year.
:)

I heard or read a comment by Kate that there is nothing wrong with BC that a D9 Cat couldnt fix,besides,it would make a bigger province with a road to the island.

Better than MSM "news" reports about storms because of the no-talking. Quiet in video is vastly under rated.

Meanwhile, Ontario crops are shriveling in the fields after the wettest, latest spring in memory, because YOU GUYS in Sask are getting all the rain. First we can't get the crops in because its too wet, now that they're finally in its too dry.

Figures.

Well, now I'm seriously embarrassed at how PO'd I was having to stay up till 2 vacuuming 20 gallons of water that got into my basement shop when the storm rolled over Saskatoon.

British Open weather.

surely trees don't belong in the flat prairie.

I love a good storm, lotsa thunder 'n lightening. Shows us who is the boss.

I love a good storm, lotsa thunder 'n lightening. Shows us who is the boss.

Here in eastern Ontario we have had numerous rain storms this summer where the rain just slants down in sheets. The rain comes so hard in these (fortunately short downpours) that it spills over the gutters like a waterfall. We should have listened to the Goreacle and Fruit Fly. There is still time to repent and ask for their forgiveness.

I was rolling through Sask on a train on Tuesday and saw nothing but sun and flooded fields ;-( ...

Where's Delisle? I actually checked it out on Wikipedia and wasn't too impressed: Under Famous People from Delisle, no mention of Kate.

Harrumph.

Lucky you. We had a very large limb come down a couple weeks back and just missed the house and smashing the wife's SUV. The live wire setting the branchs on fire was...fun.

I've been doing pick ups and deliveries in Chicago this week since the Monday storm.

Quite a mess.